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Important

This document applies only to Table Auditing, which is now deprecated.
Please use the new Blob Auditing method, which does not require downlevel client connection string modifications. Additional info on Blob Auditing can be found in Get started with SQL database auditing.

Database Auditing works automatically with SQL clients that support TDS redirection. Note that redirection does not apply when using the Blob Auditing method.

Downlevel clients support

Any client which implements TDS 7.4 should also support redirection. Exceptions to this include JDBC 4.0 in which the redirection feature is not fully supported and Tedious for Node.JS in which redirection was not implemented.

For "Downlevel clients", i.e. which support TDS version 7.3 and below - the server FQDN in the connection string should be modified:

Original server FQDN in the connection string: <server name>.database.windows.net